Cork’s historic Mardyke is to be home to an iconic new amenity and tourism attraction. “The Mardyke Gardens” will include the gold medal winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show designed by Diarmuid Gavin, a restored historic Fountain and Pond dating from the Cork Exhibition of 1902, a Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Garden and a refurbished [...]
Cork City Council is to withdraw from the provision of waste collection services in the city from August 15th next and is transferring its operations to Country Clean Recycling Ltd. who will provide the service to existing Council customers. The decision was announced at a meeting of Cork City Council held last night by City [...]
Cork City Council will provide facilities for the acceptance of Christmas trees for recycling in Cork City. All Christmas trees that are collected will be composted at the Kinsale Road Landfill Site. Christmas trees may be deposited free of charge at any of the sites listed below from Tuesday, 4th January, 2011 to Monday, 31st January 2011.
At our City Council meeting this week, we received the following report from the City Manager on the Council’s response during the severe weather we experienced over the last number of weeks: “A Ard-Méara agus Comhairleoirí, At Council meeting on 20th December 2010, I updated Members on the City Council’s response to the ongoing severe weather at [...]
Cork City Council’s Roads Maintenance division carried out full salting runs for the last six nights on defined salting routes which prioritise main traffic routes, bus routes and other areas such as those adjacent to hospitals, universities and schools. Footpaths and bridges are also salted especially in the city centre in areas of greatest pedestrian [...]
I am constantly receiving enquiries from concerned individuals about the quality of the water in the Lough, following the outbreak there, in the summer of 2009. This week we received a report from the Director of the Environment department. City Council continues to monitor water quality at the Lough, taking daily readings from ten different [...]
Over the summer months, it was mentioned to me about the possibility of making the Marina area traffic free at the weekends. I subsequently put down the following motion to council, so that the idea could be explored further: “That Cork City Council would run a
I would like to draw your attention to The National Environmental complaints Line pilot project initiated by the EPA. Cork City Council along with South Tipperary County Council, Donegal County Council, Clare County Council and Dublin City Council are taking part in the pilot.
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